Cheryl Knott publishes in the area of information access broadly construed. Her book, Find the Information You Need! Rowman Littlefield, 2016) provides an introduction to online searching. She is also the author of Not Free, Not for All: Public Libraries in the Age of Jim Crow University of Massachusetts Press, 2015) winner of the Lillian Smith Book Award and the Eliza Atkins Gleason Book Award. She is a recipient of the Justin Winsor Prize sponsored by the Library History Round Table of the American Library Association and winner of the Methodology Paper Competition of the Association for Library and Information Science Education. External funding for her research has come from the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library Foundation, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, and the American Philosophical Society. With ten years of experience as an academic librarian at the Universities of Michigan and Texas, she teaches undergraduate and graduate sections of online searching and government information and serves as the coordinator and evaluator of the ePortfolio required of all M.A. students.